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  • Currency Act

    Currency Act

    Regulated the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the colonies from printing any new paper money and the reissue of existing currency.
    The colonists protested because taxation without repetition.
    the British government finally repealed the act to letting New York print more money.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    the stamp act was an act that put a tax on stamps that were necessary on all paper.
    They refused to use the stamps, burned them, rioted, and intimidated the stamp distributors.
    The British government repealed the Stamp Act due to pressure from British merchants and manufacturers
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    a tax on foreign sugar.
    British did not want people to buy from places other than Britten.
    the colonels boycott of luxury goods imported from Great Britain
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act put taxes on important stuff that came from Britain.
    People did not like this, so they tried smuggling, witch this lovingly led to the Bosten Massacre.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The Tea Act placed duties on a number of goods imported into the colonies, including tea, glass, paper, and paint.
    This made an a monopoly on tea so when the colonist would buy the tea, they would have to give 3 pennies to the British government.
    resistance and protest from the colonists who saw it as a violation of their rights